Saturday, 16 February 2013

ACCESS ROAD TO NEW CONDO CLOSED?

BLOCK.....
the resident staging a protest to block the road.

THE 57 angry house owners in
Taman Kolombong at Lorong PIC 4 and 5 were forced to close the access road
following their dissatisfaction over the developer using their housing estate
road to transport heavy loads of building materials into a 16 storey Service
Apartment construction site.

The heavy trucks have caused
disturbances to the quiet housing estate. The housing is facing problems not
only to their buildings structures, roads and drains but also to the safety and
well being of the people.

The residents are not happy
at all even thought there were previous arrangement with the developer, and
they will continue to block the roads until the developer construct their own
access road someway else.

According to Alex Chu, the
spokesman of the residents committeehere, the people here are worry that more loads of construction
materials will get transported into the site via their housing road, and the
burden on them will get more serious day by day.

There is no guarantee that
the developer will keep their promise to build an alternative access road at
the back of the housing using the open space belonging to the housing estate.
This was agreed and also acknowledged by DBKK.

Chu further mentioned that
the said land is zoned as commercial use, and why the authorities had approved
a residential development of a 128 unit high-rise apartment building. There is
no access to it and why they can approve the development plan.

The authorities cannot force
their way through and hoping that they can use the housing road as the access
to this condo. There will be many more cars getting in and out once the condo
is completed, and now the construction traffic is bad enough.

The residents filed a
complaint with the KK MP Office and they brought the MP Hiew King Cheu on to
site to understand further about the situation. There were some 35 residents
turned up to meet MP Hiew, and they all wished that he can give them a helping
hand to resolve the matter.

The ladies are not happy
with the heavy trucks carrying heavy loads passing their home and created a lot
of dust that got into the houses. They are also worried when the kids are
playing on the road. The peaceful environment of the housing had been destroyed
completely.

Hiew said he wishes the
authorities like DBKK should immediately advice the developer to construct the
alternative access road. The new access road would not take a long time to
construct, but they must get on to it.

Meanwhile the residents in
Taman Kolombong said they will continue to block the road until the alternative
road is completed, and they said it is within their rights to do so. They are
just protecting their rights and interests the natural way. No one would like
their quiet and peace be infringed and turn up side down.